Last week, a group of British National Party activists demonstrated outside a Sheffield Primary School in protest against a consultation being held between governors and the head teacher about the provision of Sex and Relationship Education (SRE) to children under 13. After delivering letters to the city council and the head of governors, BNP members [...]
This week has seen unemployment reach new heights, with youth unemployment of approximately 1.02 million raising particular concern across the country. This is bad news for the recovery of the economy, but it also undermines the tough rhetoric behind the government’s welfare reform policy. The ‘benefits culture’ of the long term unemployed is deeply unpopular, [...]
Catch21 went to meet Kate Green MP for Stretford & Urmston to ask her “Do you think the vote should be given to people at 16?” Kate is a great believer in giving the vote to people at 16 but believes the only way decision makers will listen is to get 100K+ votes on an [...]
As the Department of Education continues its internal review of Personal, Social and Health Education (PSHE), Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom has called for the materials used in sex and relationship education (SRE) to be subject to the ratings of the British Broad of Film Classification. Speaking in a Westminster Hall debate, she stated that some [...]
Just as a report co-ordinated by the Ministry of Justice and the Home Office reveals that the majority of those arrested during the August riots came from deprived areas and had the poorest educational backgrounds, the Institute of Fiscal Studies has reported that education spending is set to fall by 14.4% between 2010/11 and 2014/15. [...]
Young people don’t get the hearing they deserve and this needs to change if the futures of young people are to be protected by policy-makers. Take tuesday’s BBC Breakfast discussion of proposals for tax breaks for over 60s downsizing their homes. 37% of UK homes are not fully-occupied, while a shortage of supply and sky-high property [...]
As the winter chill sets in, our British summer of discontent seems to be a distant memory. However, our judicial and policing systems are still dealing with the aftermath of the disturbances. Just yesterday, the Court of Appeal saw the first wave of appeals against the lengthy original sentences, leaving all but three of the [...]
Like the global explosion of student protest in 1968, the current upsurge of protest is driven by discontent among young people. But which ideological direction is it going in? Some protest movements, such as the recent anti-corruption protests in India, cannot be placed easily on the left-right spectrum. The ideological direction of the Arab Spring [...]
After the appalling scenes which we witnessed a few days ago, the debate over why it all happened is now underway. Were the riots an expression of pure criminality, or were they an attempt by marginalised members of society to make a point about the hopelessness of their situation? The picture that has been emerging [...]
The capital has been shaken by the on-going wave of rioting which started over the weekend. An initially peaceful protest in Tottenham against the police shooting of Mark Duggan turned ugly on Saturday night, with further disturbances following on Sunday (in Enfield, Walthamstow and Brixton) and Monday (in Hackney, Peckham, Lewisham and Croydon). Now there [...]
Students at the University of Hull getting off their backsides and getting people into politics
Jon Snow
Channel 4 News
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